# The same genomes carry steppe-related ancestry, the population signal usually linked to the spread of Indo-European…

> The same genomes carry steppe-related ancestry, the population signal usually linked to the spread of Indo-European languages, so a local population…

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# The same genomes carry steppe-related ancestry, the population signal usually linked to the spread of Indo-European…

The same genomes carry steppe-related ancestry, the population signal usually linked to the spread of Indo-European languages, so a local population speaking a non-Indo-European language needs explaining.

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## What it means

Key question[Where did the Etruscan language come from: Anatolia, the Aegean or Italy itself?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYM533WF5/where-did-the-etruscan-language-come-from-anatolia-the)

3 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Etruscan is a survivor of a pre-Indo-European language of Italy, spoken there before Indo-European languages arrived…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/answers/ANS0DEEBB3AB114/etruscan-is-a-survivor-of-a-pre-indo-european-language-of)

Bears on1 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 1

[The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDNJ8749HZ/the-origin-and-legacy-of-the-etruscans-through-a-2000-year)

Posth et al. 2021

SRC

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